Marsh Lane 1953. Top right this side of the Ralla is Hornby Boulevard running into the North Park which is leading into Cyprus Road and this was the National Assistance Board Office once stood. At the bridge is Marsh lane and Railway Station. I remember loads more on this photo, tell me what buildings you can recognise or remember

Easy =the blank strip running left to right under stanley rd was the LYR railway line it ran in a tunnel under Marsh Lane under the gasworks and canal coming out at Hawthorne Rd / Aintree rd (This Tunnel )we called it the ''Half Miley" Most of us lads have been through it,Peter

fatboyjoe90 wrote:Marsh Lane 1953. Top right this side of the Ralla is Hornby Boulevard running into the North Park which is leading into Cyprus Road and this was the National Assistance Board Office once stood. At the bridge is Marsh lane and Railway Station. I remember loads more on this photo, tell me what buildings you can recognise or remember

2 owens peck woodyards on Cyprus road and the georges pub on the corner of bullens terrece

St Jimmy’s Church the infants and junior schools, the buildings with the black roofs were a wood yard next to them is Palace picture house. Come on all you Bootle boys and girls there are loads more to name.

WELLINGTON ROAD TERMINUSLiverpool Corporation Tramways Office to the left of Seaforth & Litherland Railway Station to the right.

The 'Cinder Path' ran alongside the railway hoardings to Violet Road & Aikenside Street. The original 'Cinder Path' was laid with cinders left over from the building of Litherland Army Camp WWI. The cinders in the camp were used for the parade ground and walkways. The headmaster of St Philip's school offered the services of his boys and himself to the council to help spread the cinders to do their bit for the war effort.

St Jimmy’s Church the infants and junior schools, the buildings with the black roofs were a wood yard next to them is Palace picture house. Come on all you Bootle boys and girls there are loads more to name.

The bank on the corner Stanley/Marsh lane and the Bootle Times office facing

Thanks Shelagh. I have literally hundreds of old black and white photos that my mum kept.Although it is great having the old family photos it is a shame that there are very few showing Bootle locations.

Keith, those photos of your Mum at school and at work are brilliant, they are a treasure.I don’t have any of my family before the 2nd World War they were all destroyed as my parents were bombed out twice during the last war like many other families.

That picture of Peel Road makes me very sad. Costigan's - hand sliced bacon and broken biscuits, Ross's fruit shop, the library, Connor's paper shop with its 'Christmas Club', Jennings' grocers, Sayer's at the corner of Bibby's Lane, the Co-Op, the pet shop at the corner of Salisbury Road, Joe's the fish shop, butchers, chandlers, Fran's wool shop, the 'Chinkies' (I know, politically incorrect but that's what we called it) chip shop, bomb sites, St Leonard's church with John Mockford as vicar, Baisley, Anderson, Banner and Bunting as curates and Tommy Cooper as organist, the laundry in the disused chapel...all gone but not quite forgotten. A good place to grow up in the '50s.